Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Wednesday again voiced his displeasure with not having a statue in his honor outside Staples Center. He called the situation an "insult" and a sign the Los Angeles Lakers "don't care about me."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is speaking out against what he considers to be disrespect by the Lakers. (AP Photo)

Abdul-Jabbar previously told Sporting News' Steve Greenberg that he felt "slighted" by the lack of a statue. "It's either an oversight or they're taking me for granted," Abdul-Jabbar said for a Sporting News Conversation that appears in the current issue of Sporting News Magazine.

Abdul-Jabbar voiced a similar sentiment in his Twitter comments Wednesday. "An insult is an insult. If I didn't speak up no one would know how I feel about this," he said. He added in a later tweet: “Its not about a getting a statue because I'm over it - its about RESPECT! Lakers have given me the absolute minimum of respect.”

“There is no bitterness. Laker fans have always let me know that they appreciated me. That is sufficient,” he tweeted.

In the SN Conversation, Abdul-Jabbar says, among many things, that he would still like to be a full-time coach (he is a special assistant with the Lakers), that this year's L.A. team was inconsistent in its focus, that center Andrew Bynum "wasn't too keen to be coached" by him after a few years, and that his leukemia is in "full remission."